Luke 5:29-36

²⁹Levi organized a large banquet at his home in Jesus' honor. Many tax collectors and others were in the crowd that sat down to eat with them. But the Pharisees and the religious teachers complained to Jesus' disciples, asking,

³⁰“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

³¹“Healthy people don't need a doctor—but sick people do,” Jesus replied.

³²“I didn't come to call those who are living right to repentance—I came to call sinners.”

³³“Well, John's disciples often fast and pray, and the Pharisees' disciples do so as well. But your disciples don't—they go on eating and drinking,” they told him.

³⁴“Should the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them?” Jesus asked.

³⁵“No—but the time is coming when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they can fast.”

³⁶Then he gave them an illustration: “You don't tear out a patch from new clothes to mend old clothes. Otherwise you'd ruin new clothes, and the patch from the new wouldn't match the old.